# Laura Stevenson

> Sr. Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/laurastevenson

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ WeightWatchers
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Sr. Software Engineer @ phData
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
• Own and maintain the frontend codebase, ensuring high standards of performance and design
• Architect and develop the front end of key tools such as the Advisor Tool and Data Generation Tool using TypeScript and React
• Design and prototype phData’s Toolkit and CLI tool UIs using Figma
• Designed and executed a comprehensive rebrand of the phData Toolkit, ensuring a modern and cohesive user experience
• Built an internal tool to streamline the tracking of billable employee utilization using Slack Bolt and Sigma’s rest API

### Software Engineer @ DataDistillr
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
• Built data visualization and dashboard features using Vue.js, Php, Apache Drill, and SQL
• Created web data connector allowing users to easily load DDR query results into Tableau
• Built query help feature allowing users to receive troubleshooting advice from DDR experts in real-time
• Modeled data and wrote migration files to carryout database restructuring using Php and SQL
• Completed training with cloud development team to assist with deployment related tasks
• Led team of junior engineers in building DDR’s end-to-end testing suite which reduced overall testing time by 85%

### Software Engineer @ Centered
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
• Rebuilt company’s landing page, centered.app, during rebrand to expand user base
• Executed front-end styling and page layout using React, TypeScript, and CSS

### Full Stack Engineering Fellow @ Formation
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Maintain online learning platform, recurcode.com
• Built feedback feature which allows users to submit feedback from any page on the site
• Execute frontend styling using React and Material-UI to improve user experience
• Participate in code reviews and timed coding challenges to gain knowledge from Sr. Engineers

### Neither Contradictory Nor Coincidental (Thesis Project) @ University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
• Coded project in Java based language, Processing
• Designed 3D environment and custom shapes using Processing’s 3D library and PeasyCam library
• Conducted qualitative research on dyslexia

### Teaching Assistant @ University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Santa Cruz
• Taught two ninety-minute classes per week
• Oversaw between forty and eighty students per quarter
• Graded homework, essays and exams and held weekly office hours
• Guest lectured in classes of one hundred and fifty students

### Digital Literacy Teacher's Assistant @ University of San Francisco
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Tutored new media art students in P5.js
Led individual and group tutoring sessions
Assisted professor with email response

### Marketing Intern @ Lagunitas Brewing Company
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | 1280 N McDowell Blvd Petaluma, CA
Coordinated partnerships with nonprofit organizations
Organized and maintained the company’s database
Conducted advertising research on multiple social media platforms


## Education
### Master's degree in Digital Art and New Media
University of California, Santa Cruz

### Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design
University of San Francisco


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/laura-stevenson-design

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Last updated: 2026-04-01